Coffee Star to stay on IDE square     The Coffee Star on the square in front of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), Coffee & Bikes, may stay. The new campus caterer Appèl has signed an agreement with this subcontractor to that effect. Initially, Starbucks was also in the running for this location,…

New: Wubbo Ockels Innovation Prize         The Groene Grachten Foundation has launched a new sustainability initiative that rewards the three best sustainable ideas with 10 thousand euros. The Groene Grachten (‘green canals’), which makes monumental houses and offices more sustainable, was the last sustainable initiative from former astronaut Wubbo Ockels in 2012.…

Media code for stress experienced by students?     Where does all that stress and pressure to perform experienced by students come from? From every nook and cranny, according to a new study by the Trimbos Institute. It also suggests that too much media attention does not help either.   Almost half of all students…

‘Students duped by complex institutions’     Universities and universities of applied sciences are a legal jumble of legal entities, says the Inspectorate of Education in its report (in Dutch) Verwarring in Veelvoud (confusion in multitude). Even lawyers are getting lost. This is ultimately to the detriment of students and staff. The inspectorate finds that ‘current…

  Work from home advice due to air conditioning problems     Just when temperatures outside are rising, the air conditioning in some TU Delft building has stopped working. At least in the TU Delft Library and the A-wing of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM), the climate control has largely failed this…

Collection campaign for ‘unpaid’ teacher     A lecturer in mathematics at TU Eindhoven was fired in 1995, but he himself thinks very differently. For 332 months he has been teaching students unpaid. One of them started a fundraising campaign, which has already raised more than 7,500 euros.   Gert Regterschot’s lessons are wildly popular,…

Climate activists blindfold Delft statues      Extinction Rebellion Delft climate activists have again blindfolded statues in their city on Sunday 11 June to draw attention to the climate crisis. Among the eight statues were Willem de Zwijger at Prinsenhof and the busts of J.C. van Marken & Agneta van Marken in Agnetapark. They were…

Child-friendly button batteries      American girl Reese Hammersmith would have turned four on 13 June last year, were it not for the fact that at the age of just 18 months, she swallowed a button battery that proved fatal to her.   Reportedly, this seems to happen to 2,000 children a year worldwide. The current…

  Extra millions for safety in higher education     A special program to improve social safety in Dutch higher education will be introduced, for which 16 million euros are reserved. Furthermore, laws and regulations will be stricter, announced Education Minister Dijkgraaf in a parliamentary letter (in Dutch) on social safety.   Already, a budget had…

Still institutional rate for refugee student     Refugee students without residence permits will continue to have to pay institutional tuition fees in the coming years, a narrow majority in the Dutch Parliament decided on Tuesday.   Students awaiting a residence permit are considered ‘international students’, which means that they are not eligible for the…